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Now, we're not one for taking sides when it comes to football (apart from supporting Scotland...obviously!) but when a school friend got in touch with a proposition to help rename one of the Falkirk FC stands, I felt obliged to help out. Full confession, I'm not interested in football AT ALL (aside from the previous mentioned international support and watching the World Cup/Euros to appreciate a quality game). But back in the day when I was a wee pirate every now and then my dad would take me along to watch the local 'big' team, which was Falkirk FC. I...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. We are constantly looking for ways to improve on our process and product quality. (Which, admittedly, its quite tricky as they are already quite high). Over our ten years we have barely changed the blank t-shirt base we have used for our designs. After ten years we felt the need for a change... There are always pros and cons when changing something familiar, but with the new change we feel that the pros outweigh the cons. The first difference you will notice with our new t-shirt style is that the...

2020 is proving to be one of those years that will go down in the history books. We’re only just over half way in and we’ve seen massive uncontrollable forest fires, a global pandemic of the like no one has seen for a hundred years, global racial equality unrest and Brexit… Every country is trying to deal with the effect of COVID19 in their own way, Scotland has issued the use of face masks to be mandatory when entering shops or crowded areas. Many people have differing opinions on this legislation, but as many more shops (and pubs) begin opening...

Where oh where has the time gone! Urban Pirate has reached a decade!  We can’t believe it. Ten years down the line and our mission has never changed, offering an alternative to the Scottish gift market. Bored of the tartan tatt, rip-offs, crude humour of existing Scottish clothing we wanted to offer something different, something creative, in other words, something we would be willing to wear ourselves. ] We wanted to create designs with a story.  Something that said Scotland but without saying ‘Scotland. We create everything from scratch, drawing inspiration from far and wide, but in most cases they...